01/21/2016 Cocheco Times by The Weirs Publishing Company

THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, Thursday, January 21, 2016

A SPECIAL COCHECO VALLEY EDITION OF THE WEIRS TIMES NEWSPAPER. VOLUME 25, NO. 3

THE WEIRS, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE, N.H., THURSDAY, January 21, 2016

COMPLIMENTARY

Ice Rod Matching by Tim Moore

“A Guide’s Life” Columnist

One of the first lessons I teach new anglers and those looking to increase their catch is how to properly match your rod and reel to your line and lure. A properly matched setup allows you to get the most out of the equipment you are using, maximizes the potential of your equipment, and allows you to get the most out of it. Will you catch fish with an improperly matched setup? Sure you will, but you’ll catch more fish, feel your lure, detect more bites,

and ultimately become a better angler if your gear is well-balanced. Selecting line for use in cold weather presents a unique challenge. Even the best monofilament line has memory, especially when it gets cold. When your line comes off the spool it is going to want to coil. These coils act a springs and can dampen the action you are attempting to produce with your lure. Line coils also prevent you from detecting bites. Your line should be light enough See moore on 12

Free Ice Fishing Talks At Fish and Game

Pro Staffs. The talks will begin at 7pm at Fish and Game headquarters, 11 Hazen Drive in Concord, NH. No pre-registration is necessary. The schedule for the two classes are: Catching Winter Panfish -Wednesday, January 20th, at 7pm. Ice Fishing for Lake Trout on Winnipesaukee -- Wednesday, January 27th at 7pm. C h is

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We know you anglers are getting anxious to see some more ice on the lakes for this season of ice fishing. You know it will be here, but to get you in the mood our newest column by “A Guide’s Life” columnist Tim Moore provides a few tips on making the most of the courtesy Photo experience. Enjoy reading and happy fishing!!

Polish up your ice fishing skills by taking advantage of two free ice fishing seminars with New Hampshire fishing guide Tim Moore being offered in Concord this January at the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department. Moore is the owner of Tim Moore Outdoors. Moore has ice fished in New Hampshire for more than thirty years and has been featured on NH’s Wildside TV and New Hampshire Chronicle. Moore is an Ice Team Pro, as well as a member of Clam Outdoors, Vexilar, Maki Plastics and Daddy Mac Lures

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Laconia Rotary Club’s Indoor Golf Tournament

The Golf Club at Patrick’s Place, 18 Weirs Road, Gilford. Teams can register for the 4-person scramble event by calling Golf Pro Dan Wilkins at 387-2597. $160 per team, payable by cash or check to Laconia Rotary Club. Open and Senior divisions are available.

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Happy Hour for the Mind and Body

Riverfront Place, 2nd Floor, Tilton. 6:30pm-8pm. Life Development Strategies invites you to take a break from your busy week to rejuvenate your mind, body, soul and business. To create a more comfortable experience, please bring a pillow and a blanket. Pre-register by calling 7243417 or email mary@maryrhowe.com

Storytelling Dinner

Corner House Inn, 22 Main Street, Sandwich. 6:30pm. Full dinner and entertainment for just $19.95pp (plus tax and gratuity). Includes; salad, entrée, glass of wine, dessert and coffee. 284-6219 or email at info@ cornerhouseinn.com

Holycow! Music Trivia

Holy Grail of the Lakes, downtown Laconia. 6pm-8pm. The addicting tavern game for all ages. Each week featuring 50 new artists from all music genres. Test your musical knowledge (and luck) while winning cool prizes! holycowband@gmail.com

Date Night! With Complimentary Babysitting Service during Dinner

The Wolfeboro Inn, 90 North Main Street, Wolfeboro. 5pm-9pm. Enjoy dinner at the Inn and enjoy complimentary babysitting while you dine!569-3016

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Holycow! Music Trivia

Juniors Crush House, Gilford. 8:30pm-10:30pm. The addicting tavern game for all ages. Each week featuring 50 new artists from all music genres. Test your musical knowledge (and luck) while winning cool prizes. holycowband@gmail.com

Speed Dating

The Wolfeboro Inn, 90 North Main Street, Wolfeboro. 7pm. 8 minute dating. Register at www.8minutedating. com 569-3016

The Mallett Brothers Band

Pitman’s Freight Room, 94 New Salem Street, Laconia. 8pm. $15pp. BYOB. 527-0043 or www.pitmansfreightroom. com

Saturday 23rd

David Bromberg Quintet

The Flying Monkey, Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh.com 536-2551

Snowshoe Saunter

Prescott Farm, White Oaks Road, Laconia. 10am-11:30pm OR 1pm2:30pm. $10pp/non-members, $8pp/ members. Price includes snowshoe rental. 366-5695 or www.prescottfarm.

The Fuzzboxx Band – Live Music

The Wolfeboro Inn, 90 North Main Street, Wolfeboro. 8:30pm. 569-3016

Dessert of ice cream and cookies will compliment the meal. All are welcome to attend, donations are greatly appreciated. Seating is limited; call 279-9918 to reserve seats.

Franklin Indoor Community Benefit Yard Sales

Welcome Wednesdays at Sant Bani School

Bargain shop for gently-used, ‘recycled’ items at three locations in Franklin. Franklin High School, 115 Central Street, Compass Classical Academy, 15 Elkins Street and Twin Rivers Integration Program Center, 12 Rowell Drive, Bessie Rowell Community Center, all in Franklin. 8am-1pm. 934-8343

Moonlit Walk

Prescott Farm, White Oaks Road, Laconia. 6-7:30pm. $10pp/nonmembers, $8pp/members. Price includes snowshoe rental. 366-5695 or www.prescottfarm.org

Public Breakfast and Bake Sale

The Masonic Building, 410 West Main Street, Tilton. 7-9:30am. Full breakfast including eggs cooked to order. $8pp. 524-8268 Sunday 24th

19th Annual Robert Burns Night

Corner House Inn, Center Sandwich. 5:30pm. Join the Corner House Inn for a fun evening of verse, song, piping and Highland dancing, as well as a delectable Scottish dinner! For more information and reservations, call 284-6219 or online at info@ cornerhouseinn.com

Monadnock Humane Society’s 140th Birthday Celebration!

MHS Guinane Training Center, 101 West Swanzey Road, Swanzey. 2-3pm. Refreshments will be served including homemade cupcakes and whoopee pies. Games for children, live DJ, photo booth and more! A midyear community update will follow the party at 3pm. 352-9011

Monday 25th That Reminds Me of a Story

Havenwood Auditorium, 33 Christian Ave, Concord. 2:15pm. Rebecca Rule will tell some of her favorite stories of New Hampshire and invite the audience members to contribute a few stories of their own. 229-1185

Three Rivers Singers Rehearsal – New Singers Welcome

Inspiration Music, River Street, Franklin. 6:30pm. Three Rivers Singers would welcome new SATB voices. This budding group has performed for local events and is eager to grow it’s membership. Rehearsals take place every Monday. 934-7163

Wednesday 27th Friends of the Meredith Library Meeting

Meredith Public Library, Main Street, Meredith. 3pm. The mission of the Friends of the Meredith Library is to promote library involvement in the community and community involvement in the library.

AAltrusa of Meredith Roast Pork Community Dinner

Meredith Community Center, Meredith. Doors open at 5pm. Dinner served at 5:30pm. The cooks of Altrusa will be preparing a special dinner of succulent roast pork, southern style yam casserole (a member’s treasured family recipe), broccoli and rolls.

Sant Bani School, 19 Ashram Road, Sanbornton. 9am-10:30am. Families interested in an independent, childcentered education are invited to come tour the facility, drop in for Q & A , coffee and cookies. 934-4240

Weekly Cribbage Tournament

Patrick’s Pub and Eatery, Gilford. 7pm. Every Wednesday night through May 25th. $10pp with weekly cash prizes. 998-1418

Thursday 28th The Stampede feat. Donna the Buffalo & Ben Cohen

The Flying Monkey, Main Street, Plymouth. www.flyingmonkeynh.com 536-2551

Happy Hour for the Mind and Body

Storytelling Dinner

Holycow! Music Trivia

Network with Fusion

Patrick’s Pub and Eatery, Gilford. 5:307:30pm. This event is a great way to form new relationships and strengthen existing ones in a fun environment with a dynamic group of individuals that are making a difference in the communities they serve. $15pp includes; delicious buffet style hors d’ oeuvres, beer and wine samples, giveaways and the incredible opportunity to expand your social and business circles. Reservations requested. Register at www.fusionnh.org

Friday 29th Holycow! Music Trivia

Music Trivia with Jeff Lines

The Wolfeboro Inn, 90 North Main Street, Wolfeboro. 8pm. 569-3016

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Candie Tremblay – Live Music

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Meet Curious George At The Children’s Museum A mischievous monkey and his tall, faithful friend will be in Dover, NH on Saturday, January 30 from 10am-2pm. Curious George and the Man with the Yellow Hat will be visiting the Children’s Museum of New Hampshire to greet young fans and help promote the love of reading. At the Books Alive event museum staff will be reading Curious George stories by Margret and Hans “H.A.” Rey throughout the day. The friendly costumed monkey character, accompanied by the Man with the Yellow Hat, will be popping in and out to greet children, exchange a hug or high-five, and pose for photos. There will also be a variety of monkey-inspired literacy, math and creative activities for children in the museum’s large classroom. All Books Alive activities are included with regular paid admission to the museum: $10 for adults and children over the age of 1 and $9 for seniors. Museum admission is free for Children’s Museum of NH members and children under 1 year old. The not-for-profit Children’s Museum of New Hampshire is located at 6 Washington Street in Dover. For more information, please call the museum at (603) 742-2002 or visit www. childrens-museum.org

Rin Tin Tin In Campton He couldn’t speak. But that was no handicap for a star during the silent film era. He was Rin Tin Tin, the legendary German Shepherd dog whose popularity rivaled that of any human performer when the movies were brand new. See for yourself on Saturday, Feb. 6, when the Campton Historical Society screens a double feature of vintage Rin Tin Tin silent adventure films with live music by Jeff Raspis. The evening begins with a pot luck supper at 5 p.m. The film program, which is free and open to the public, will start at about 6:15 p.m. In ‘Clash of the Wolves’ (1925), Rin Tin Tin plays a wild wolf who befriends a prospector; together they hunt down a criminal intent on jumping the prospector’s claim and stealing his girl. In ‘The Night Cry’ (1926), Rin Tin Tin is unjustly accused of killing sheep in ranching country; this forces him to flee for his life and hunt down the true killer on his own. For more details, visit www.camptonhistorical.org. For more info on the music, visit www.jeffrapsis.com.

The Last Waltz In Rochester On Saturday, February 13 at 8pm, The Rev Tor Band brings The Last Waltz LIVE, An All-Star Recreation of The Band’s Classic Concert, to the Rochester Opera House stage. The Last Waltz supplies the perfect soundtrack to bring musicians together and strengthen the common bond of music. This show is a community-based event that celebrates the diversity and unique energy of the local music scene. This performance features local favorites like Brett Willson of Roots of Creation, members of High Range and Wellfleet, plus Joe Biedrzycki, Patrick Curry, Doug Decker, Lou Eastman, Tara Greenblatt, Arthur James, Jon King, Rob Kneeland, Mike Morris, Craig Roy, Tom Schena, and Andrea Szirbik. Tickets are $22-$26 and can be purchased online at RochesterOperaHouse.com or call/stop by the box office (603) 3351992, M/W/F from 10am to 5pm and two hours before the show. Cash bar, under age 18 must be accompanied by legal guardian.

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Her unyielding compassion and benevolence towards so many in the town has changed lives. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our mom,â&#x20AC;? said her daughter, Kimberly Rudolph. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But really she has mothered so many more people than just usâ&#x20AC;? Christine moved to New Hampshire from Brooklyn, New York in 1984 when she was seventeen years old with her son, Michael Campione. In 1985 she married Frank Rudolph and over the next few years, Kimberly and brother David completed the family. In 2000, Christine took a job at Brookside Pizza where she eventually became a partner and then owner. The successful business expanded when a video store next door closed and the space was used to expand the business and open the Tap Public House.

But it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Christineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s excellent business sense that will mark her legacy in Belmont, but what she did to change so many lives and truly make a difference. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She hired a lot of the younger kids in town from middle and high school and gave them their first jobs,â&#x20AC;? said Kimberly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She really helped them get their feet wet in the job market and learn good work ethics. Many of them still stop into the restaurant to thank her for the one on one training and encouragement she gave them, making sure they did better in school so they would do well once they graduated.â&#x20AC;? Christine made it a priority to help low income families in the area, always providing jobs to those who needed one and making sure that there was food for those See rudolph on 22

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Supports Rubio To The Editor: I fear for our country. The absentee ballots are in the mail for our First In The Nation presidential primary to be held on February 9. Seldom in our countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s history has who is to be the nominee been more important. The late famous conservative thinker and writer, William F. Buckley, once wrote what later became known as the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Buckley Rule,â&#x20AC;? which said something to the effect that a conservative should vote for the most conservative candidate in a primary who can actually win in a general election. That has never been more true than at this time. There is seldom, if ever, an election in which one is able to find a candidate with whom the voter and the candidate agree on every issue. It is usually a matter of voting for the lesser of the evils. We have an â&#x20AC;&#x153;openâ&#x20AC;? primary in which voters who have registered as undeclared as to political party can request a primary ballot for either party. Thus, the wise political strategy in this election cycle is for supporters of Hillary Clinton to register as undeclared, request a Republican primary ballot, and vote for the Republican candidate who is least likely to beat Hillary. If the Republican nominee is unable to beat Hillary Rodham Clinton in the General Election in November, imagine what her presidency will be like: She will be able to ap-

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point (for life) several Justices to the US Supreme Court, for several of the existing Justices are ill and old. Imagine whom she will appoint: How about that well-known constitutional law professor, Barack Hussein Obama? How about one or more of her closest confidants and advisors, Huma Mahmood Abedin (wife of the infamous excongressman and serial sexter Anthony Weiner), or Sidney Blumenthal? How about John Kerry or even William Jefferson Clinton (a disbarment should not stand in his way)? What would her cabinet look like? Take some guesses. No matter how improbable, you will probably be fairly close to what would actually happen. These are only some of the issues that cause me great fear and should concern every American. Although Donald Trump may have touched several chords by voicing a number of statements that reflect what many typical Americans actually think and feel, his nomination as the Republican nominee to run against Clinton will insure a victory for her. Trump was a Democrat before he was a Republican, and he espouses numerous viewpoints that are at odds with conservative and/or libertarian American values. For example, he has, on national television, said that he â&#x20AC;&#x153;lovesâ&#x20AC;? eminent domain,â&#x20AC;? which is when the government takes your private property, supposedly for

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public use, but sometimes to turn over the property to private real estate developers, like Trump, for private for-profit development. No matter how much Trump supporters might fantasize about a Trump win, in reality Trump simply cannot win in a general election, because to win the candidate must have sufficiently broad appeal to attract votes from the so-called â&#x20AC;&#x153;middle of the roadâ&#x20AC;? voters, who are neither doctrinaire Democrats or Republicans. Trump has the highest negatives of any candidates, meaning that he has the highest number of people answering polls who say that could never vote for him. Thus, I urge my fellow Republicans, declared or undeclared, and my fellow Americans who would not like to see another Clinton administration and what it would do to our great country, to refrain from selecting Trump as the Republican nominee, and pick a candidate who is a true conservative with the personality and temperament to have broad appeal to all voters. My candidate is my former law partner and friend, Marco Rubio. He is not a bully. He is not a reality show star. He does not take great pleasure in shouting out to someone on national TV that they are fired. Not only is he a true conservative but he plays well with others. Norman J. Silber Gilford, NH.

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I have a really great idea for a very funny column about the upcoming presidential primary, but as I sit down to write it’ll know I am totally at the mercy of my laptop. Will it perform as it is intended, to turn on and make me wait a few seconds; a few seconds I can use to get my ideas I order, or will it decide that it’s time for one of its obnoxious updates and put a kink into my writing schedule? Will all go smoothly without a hiccup or will I have to spend the next ten minutes to a half hour or more watching the circle in the middle of my laptop’s screen endlessly chasing its own tail, and if so, will I be able to retain the ideas that are in my head for this column or will I lose them? There is not much I can do when my laptop needs to update. I look at it as my laptop’s electronic call of nature. The urgency of the update is something that I can’t feel, but I start to think that maybe the laptop can and needs to act immediately. What are these updates anyway? I would assume that their purpose is to see to it that my laptop is running more smoothly; that it is able to process things smoother and faster. (Except, obviously, the updates themselves.) When the update no-

tice rears its ugly head, I sigh. I know it could be quite a while until I am allowed access to my laptop’s function. Still, it implores me that under no circumstances whatsoever am I to turn off the computer during the process of the update. I comply, even though at times I am frustrated enough to do so. I am ready with my ideas and, with a cup of hot coffee in hand, excited to do battle with words, but it often won’t let me go to work immediately. When this happens, I am often tempted to go against the orders I see on the screen and just turn the thing off anyway. Still, I stop and think. It’s a habit of mine. I assume that my laptop is receiving its orders from a place far away. A place I envision that is full of wires and electricity and people with coke bottle glasses who are telling it it is time for its update. I could be wrong, but it I like the scenario. So, I think, it is not necessarily the fault of my laptop. It is possible that my laptop isn’t thrilled about the updates either. Maybe it feels some sort of weird electrical pain as the updates happen and, if interrupted and needed to be started over again, the pain is even worse. So, it implores me when I turn it on, not for any reason whatsoever turn it off because it will only be worse for the laptop. If I turn it off, maybe I will be acting selfish and heartless and not thinking of my laptop but only of myself. So, I don’t. Instead I watch it chase its tail and start to think crazy things like maybe my laptop has feelings and I need to be considerate of what may or may not be real. Then these bizarre thoughts carry to oth-

er electronic devices as well. Did my tablet feel pain when I accidentally dropped it on the floor? Did my keyboard at work suffer greatly when I inadvertently spilled hot coffee all over it? Was my cell phone feeling distress when I was forgetful and left it behind at the restaurant only to be confiscated by the hostess and placed in a dark box with other forgotten things until I came back the next morning to claim it? Then it occurs to me that maybe life was easier when we didn’t have all of this technology. Sure, the way we do some things might be slower but the psychological pressure we might begin to feel if we were to think crazy thoughts like there is a different plane of existence for our gadgets might not be worth it. Of course, I may be the only one who is thinking this way and, of course, I would never even have these thoughts cross into my head if my laptop didn’t have to go through its obnoxious routine of its random updates and if I had never seen 2001: A Space Odyssey. So, I press the on button and wait a few seconds. All seems to be fine, but I’ve fallen for this trap before. I know better than for get too confident or smug. Plus, all this thinking has given me a headache and I need to lie down for a bit. I guess my great column about the primary will just have to wait until next week. Brendan welcomes your comments as brendan@ weirs.com. His website is www.BrendanTSmith. com

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Inside the Garden of Political Town Hall Plants On Thursday, CNN will host a town hall with President Obama as part of his “finalyear push to make gun by Michelle Malkin control part of his legaSyndicated Columnist cy.” In addition to sitting down with liberal anchor Anderson Cooper, the network says Obama will “take questions from the audience.” Uh-oh. Get out your best pruning shears and trowels. In an age of micromanaged partisan stagecraft and left-wing media enablers, there is no such thing as a spontaneous question. CNN has a long history of allowing political plants to flourish in its public forums. At the cable station’s Democratic debate in Las Vegas in 2007, moderator Wolf Blitzer introduced several citizen questioners as “ordinary people, undecided voters.” But they later turned out to include a former Arkansas Democratic director of political affairs, the president of the Islamic Society of Nevada, and a far left anti-war activist who’d been quoted in newspapers lambasting Harry Reid for his failure to pull out of Iraq. At a CNN/YouTube GOP debate two weeks later, the everyday, “undecided voters” whose questions were chosen included: --A member of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transexual Americans For Hillary Clinton Steering Committee. --A young woman named “Journey” who questioned the candidates on abortion and whom CNN failed to properly identify as an outspoken John Edwards

supporter. --A supposed “Log Cabin Republican” who had declared his support for Obama on an Obama ‘08 campaign blog. --A supposedly unaffiliated “concerned mother” who was actually a staffer and prominent Pittsburgh union activist for the United Steelworkers -- which had endorsed Edwards for president. --A supposed “undecided” voter who urged Ron Paul to run as an independent, but who had already publicly declared his support for former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson’s Democratic presidential bid. --A staffer for Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.; a former intern for Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., and a former intern for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Once a manipulative gardener, always a manipulative gardener. During the push for Obamacare, Democrat plants spread like kudzu across town hall propaganda events. At White House “citizen town halls” in 2009, Team Obama hand-picked notso-random “random” questioners who included: --An operative for the Washington, D.C.-based Health Care for America Now, the K Street Astroturf outfit with a $40 million budget to lobby for governmentrun health care that directed its activists to “drown out” opponents at town hall meetings. --An “unemployed” cancer patient who was actually working for the DNC’s Organizing for America and the Virginia Organizing Project, which coordinated lobbying trips and health care forums with HCAN. --A Democrat National Committee member and community blogger at Organizing for

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I was reading the Union Leader on January 11 and came across a submission from Keith Howard, Executive Director of by Jane Cormier Liberty House in Hooksett, NH. Manchester, NH. His article really struck home for me and I suspect for many other small government loving folks as well. In this article, Mr. Howard tells the story of how his nonprofit organization turned down funding from the federal government. It seems HUD (Housing and Urban Development) used to fund Liberty House approximately $40,000 per year as Liberty House provides housing, food, and clothing to vets and others in dire need. As Mr. Howard writes, “NONPROFITS don’t often turn down money. When they do, it deserves explanation.” Indeed. See malkin on 30 Mr. Howard explains carefully

how it was necessary for Liberty House to decline the funding as “…it is the right thing to do, and necessary to maintain our core principles.” Wow. Imagine that. Standing up for core principles. Kudos to Liberty House. Good for you. As many of you know, when you take that “free money” (our own tax dollars, mind you) you also have to abide by the many federal stipulations of this money. Under HUD’s “Housing First” program, Liberty House would have been unable to enforce its “clean and sober facility”. Mr. Howard explains, “Liberty House provides housing for 10 vets, food for 100-150 people per month – veterans or not, and clothing for anyone who comes to our door in need…As a formerly homeless vet myself, I am proud to spend my days working with men and women trying to return to the mainstream. I’m also a recovering alcoholic and heroin addict, and Liberty House is a clean and See cormier on 17

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National School Choice Week “Resistance is futile!” Anyone familiar with the Star Trek universe will recognize that threat by Ken Gorrell as coming Northfield, NH. from the Borg (and will know that for some reason, in the 24th century, it’s pronounced FEW-tile). For non-Trekkies: Borg are an evil collective race with a single queen directing billions of cybernetic warrior drones. Their goal is to assimilate other species in order to increase their own power. Under the Borg, free will, self-determination, and

choice do not exist. All resistance is crushed. While the Department of Education isn’t as powerful as the Borg queen, and the leaders of the NEA and AFT unions only sometimes resemble cybernetic drones, they all work against the education choice movement, intent on crushing resistance. Thankfully, in 21st century America, resistance to the Big Education collective is not futile. Next week is National School Choice Week (24 – 30 January), a celebration of choice and the self-determination of families looking for the best educational opportunities for their children. Choice Week is billed as a “nonpartisan, nonpolitical public awareness effort.” And it should be, since the focus is on the needs

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dent Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address, the annual speech to a joint session of Congress, by John J. Metzler has emerged Syndicated Columnist as more of a political pep rally than a clear overview of America’s standing in the world both domestic and foreign. The address was touted as a “vision speech,” but alas the vision appeared blurry, especially in the realm of foreign policy. In a preachy and often pedantic address, the President often followed the path of poignant partisanship as if this was not a policy address but a political campaign speech. Set to the backdrop of the ongoing U.S. presidential campaign, the speech naturally reflected the Democrat/Republican divide but let’s face it, the President himself has encouraged much of this political and group balkanization. Nonetheless, the address offered a new level of political Kabuki where through the shadows of rhetoric and imagery, the American

people’s genuine frustrations over the economy, global terrorism, domestic security and Washington’s political gridlock were overlooked. Interestingly, President Obama’s final State of the Union address marked a new record low in TV and cable viewership, according to Nielsen ratings. Thus when the President moved from his self-congratulatory “happy talk” about the American economy and stubbornly defended his controversial Obama Care medical insurance policies, the fog of foreign policy enveloped parts of the discourse. “In today’s world, we’re threatened less by evil empires and more by failing states,” he intoned. “Priority number one is protecting the American people and going after terrorist networks. Both al Qaeda and now ISIL pose a direct threat to our people,” but then echoed his Republican predecessor by saying, ”When you come after Americans, we go after you. It may take time, but we have long memories, and our reach has no limit.” He added, “We just need to call them what they are: killers and fanatics who have to be rooted out, hunted down, and destroyed.” The foreign policy segment was See Metzler on 25

of children. Yet in 2015, of the 21 governors who issued proclamations recognizing the celebration, only one was a Democrat. In D.C. and in Concord, support for education choice is generally split along partisan lines. A simple idea: Parents should be free to choose how their children are educated, and the education options should not be

biased in favor of one method or organization. To the education collective, that statement is heresy and a threat. The individual needs of children don’t matter as much as the needs of a particular system. Power matters. To the collective, competition bred by choice is an anathema. But to parents, education isn’t a power See gorrell on 30

‘Messing With the Constitution’ In recent years, a small but growing number of people have advocated a convention of states to propose amendments to the by Thomas Sowell Constitution Syndicated Columnist of the United States. The reaction to the proposal has been hostile, out of all proportion to either the originality or the danger of such a convention. The political left has been especially vehement in its denunciations of what they call “messing with the Constitution.” A recent proposal by Governor Greg Abbott of Texas to hold a Constitutional convention of states has been denounced by the Texas branch of the American Civil Liberties Union and nationally by an editorial in the liberal “USA Today.” The irony in all this is that no one has messed with the Constitution more or longer than the political left, over the past hundred years. This began with Progressives like Woodrow Wilson, who openly declared the Constitution an impediment to the kinds of “reforms” the Progressive movement wanted, and urged judges to “interpret” the Constitution in such a way as to loosen its limits on federal power. It has long been a complaint of the left that the process of amending the Constitution is too hard, so they have depended on federal judges -- especially Supreme Court Justices -- to amend the

Constitution, de facto and piecemeal, in a leftward direction. This judicial amendment process has been going on now for generations, so that today government officials at the local, state or national level can often seize private property in disregard of the 5th Amendment’s protections. For nearly 40 years, the Supreme Court has been evading the 14th Amendment’s provision of “equal protection” of the law for all, in order to let governmentimposed group preferences and quotas continue, under the name of “affirmative action.” Equal rights under the law have been made to vanish by saying the magic word “diversity,” whose sweeping benefits are simply assumed and proclaimed endlessly, rather than demonstrated. The judicial pretense of merely “interpreting” the Constitution is just part of the dishonesty in this process. The underlying claim that it is almost impossible to amend the Constitution was belied during the very years when the Progressive movement was getting underway in the early 20th century. The Constitution was amended four times in eight years! Over the years since it was adopted, the Constitution has been amended more than two dozen times. Why, then, is the proposal to call a convention of states to propose -- just propose -- amendments to the Constitution considered such a radical and dangerous departure? Legally, it is no departure at all. The Constitution itself lists a conSee Sowell on 30

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student in Iowa. Muriel Gallo-Chasanoff exposed how a senior Clinton staffer approached her with “a binder with prewritten questions.” She told CNN -- attention, CNN! -- that the “top one was planned specifically for a college student. ... It said ‘college student’ in brackets and then the question.” Gallo-Chasanoff conceded to asking the question, which read: “As a young person, I’m worried about the long-term effects of global warming. How does your plan combat climate change?” Upon reflection, GalloChasanoff felt ashamed of her cooperation with Democratic Kabuki theater and condemned the charade as “dishonest.” If only more self-respecting journalists felt the same way.

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play, and children should be at the center of the education universe. For NH’s children, competition aided by our education tax credit scholarship program provides choices… and hope. In a 2010 New York Times op-ed, author and political scientist Charles Murray wrote: “There are millions of parents out there who don’t have enough money for private school but who have thought just as sensibly and care just as much about their children’s education as affluent people do. Let’s use the money we are already spending on education in a way that gives those parents the same kind of choice that wealthy people, liberal and conservative alike, exercise right now. That should be the beginning and the end of the argument for school Michelle Malkin’s email choice.” address is malkinblog@ As logical and compelgmail.com. ling as Murray’s point is, it is neither the beginning nor the end of the argument because in politics, power plays trump logic. Nowhere is that more clear Serving than in the poor neighServingLaconia LaconiaDaily Daily borhoods of Washington, D.C., just blocks from the 267-7134 or 527-8001 White House. President Obama has long opposed OPEN AT 5AM DAILY OPEN AT 5AM DAILY the District’s Opportunity

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Scholarship Program that, since its creation under President Bush in 2004, has provided hope to hundreds of families locked into the most expensive yet most clearly failing public school system. Sadly, the funding didn’t make it into the budget deal passed in December, so parents in our nation’s capital must fight for the ability to exercise “the same kind of choice that wealthy people” – including the President – exercise now. In NH, the usual drones remain opposed to our education tax credit scholarship program. Putting the interests of a system ahead of the people it is meant to serve, they work to keep the playing field tilted in favor of parents wealthy enough to exercise choice. On the campaign trail Sen. Ted Cruz called education choice the “civil rights issue of the 21st century.” He’s right. And in this struggle, it’s mostly the GOP standing with lower-income families who wish to exercise the same choices the rich take for granted. Economist Stephen Moore recently wrote that “a quality education is the best anti-poverty program ever invented” and “the best path to reducing income inequality.” Choice advocates believe that parents should be the arbiters of what is best for their kids educationally; opponents think that decision should be left to the education “elite” and opportunities should be circumscribed by Zip Code. National School Choice Week events are planned across the state. The goal is to raise public awareness of education options and to help parents exercise their options. Even if you don’t have schoolaged children, this civil rights issue is worth your time and attention. As we approach Primary Day, ask those asking for your vote if they stand with children and choice. Ken can be reached at kengorrell@gmail.com

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vention of states among the ways that amendments can be officially proposed. It has not yet been done, but these proposals will have to be put to a vote of the states, three-fourths of whom will have to agree before any amendment can become law. Is it better to have the Constitution amended de facto by a 5 to 4 vote of the Supreme Court? By the unilateral actions of a president? By administrative rulings by anonymous bureaucrats in federal agencies, to whom federal judges “defer”? The idea that a convention of states could run amok and rewrite the Constitution overlooks the fact that it would take the votes of two-thirds of the states just to convene a convention, and then three-fourths of the states to actually pass an amendment. Far from proposing radical departures from the Constitution, most of Governor Abbott’s proposed amendments would restore Constitutional protections that have been surreptitiously eroded by unelected federal judges and by unelected bureaucrats in administrative agencies, who create a major part of “the law of the land,” with the help of “deference” from federal judges. Why are “We the People” to be kept out of all this, through our elected representatives, when these are the very words with which the Constitution of the United States begins? Despite the left’s portrayal of themselves as champions of the people, they consistently try to move decisions out of the hands of the general public and into the hands of officials insulated from the voters, such as unelected federal judges and anonymous bureaucrats with iron-clad job protection. No wonder they don’t want to have a convention that would restore a Constitution which begins with “We the People.” Thomas Sowell’swebsite is www.tsowell.com.

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The Spirit of Johnny Cash Comes Back To Rochester Saturday, February 20th at 8pm

Johnny Cash tribute artist Harold Ford will be at the Rochester Opera House on Saturday, February 20th at 8pm (Doors 7pm). Ford, with a deep baritone voice and striking resemblance to the beloved Man in Black, is inspired to keep the torch burning for the beloved country music icon. With great reverence, Ford says: “The human struggles and challenges which Johnny sang about are as prevalent today as they were throughout his career. He moved us all to look deep with greater passion and understanding at ourselves and others. “The members of The Cash Band and I strive to remain true to the humanity that was such an important part of Johnny Cash’s music.” The mission of Harold Ford & The Cash Band is to carry on the spirit message and music of Johnny Cash. In The Spirit of Johnny Cash, Ford and his Cash Band recreate the sound of Johnny Cash and The Tennessee Three. Laura Lucy joins Mr. Ford and the band as the captivating June Carter Cash. Ford possesses the stage presence and charisma

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